==Women's Fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Allie Spencer
|title=The Not-So Secret Diary of a City Girl
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Banking analyst, Laura McGregor has her secret diary accidentally uploaded to the Internet. The diary contains her thoughts about her lacklustre relationship with a
trader, her attraction towards a “dirt-digging journalist” and massive discrepancies in the accounts of her new manager.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755352947</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Katie Fforde
|summary=If ''Cut on the Bias'' is in your local bookshop, you will surely be won over by the feisty cover. Stories about women and their clothes are about identity, so what better start to a set of short stories than a fashion statement cover featuring the bags in which said clothes arrive home?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784132</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Erica Bauermeister
|title=The Monday Night Cooking School
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The Monday Night Cooking School is the first novel written by American writer Erica Bauermeister and it really is a delicious read in every sense. The novel tells of eight very diverse people who attend a cooking class once a month at Lillian's restaurant. Each has a different reason for being there and each has his or her own story to tell. However, over the months that the course is run, they start to bond through the learning experience and their love of food. It's not the sort of novel where much happens but if you are interested in people and you love food, I am sure you will enjoy this book. Having said that though, I don't think it is a book that should be read if you are trying to diet because you can virtually smell the food as you turn the pages!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141038837</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Morton
|title=The Forgotten Garden
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Just before the First World War a little girl was found abandoned on the wharf after a dreadful sea voyage from England to Australia. She appears not to know her name – or is unwilling to tell it – and all she will say is that a mysterious lady she calls the Authoress had promised to look after her. There's no trace of her though and the little girl was taken in a by a friendly family. She forgot all about the events until many years later when her adopted father told her what had happened.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330449605</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cathy Marie Buchanan
|title=The Day The Falls Stood Still
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=I imagined this title as a 'Gone With the Wind' sort of novel, a saga-esque historical romance, with a characterful heroine and page-turning story line that necessitates reading late into the night. Well, I wasn't disappointed in this paperback edition of the hardback, already a best-seller in the U.S.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091925967</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nia Pritchard
|title=More Than Just A Hairdresser
|rating=2.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It's a brand new year, and Liverpudlian hairdresser Shirley is looking forward to the months ahead following one hell of a new year's eve party. What's more, she's going to chronicle her adventures in her brand spanking new diary which she will write in diligently, even when she's feeling a bit 'morning after the night before'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1870206851</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anthony Quinn
|title=The Rescue Man
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This love affair tale with the city of Liverpool is mostly told through the eyes of architect Tom Baines. With the Second World War looming, Baines is desperately working on a book to capture the memory of buildings that are at risk, and appears a man more in love with the past and solid, cold structures than mankind.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531933</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Lorraine Jenkin
|title=Chocolate Mousse and Two Spoons
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=From the first sentence: 'With one hell of a crash, Lettie Howell’s dinner service hit the wall…', I knew that I was going to enjoy this tale. An opening thus full of expletive and resounding Welsh Voice immediately makes it clear who’s the boss and I can relax, knowing I’m in competent hands. Welcome, Lorraine Jenkin, to my handful of favourite chick-lit authors.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1870206959</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ru Freeman
|title=A Disobedient Girl
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=
''A Disobedient Girl'' follows two women struggling to retain control of their lives in the face of servitude. Latha is a servant girl to the affluent Vithanage family, whose daughter, Thara, is Latha's age. As children, the girls are the best of friends, but they are destined to be separated by class, which is made painfully obvious when boys come into the picture. Meanwhile, Biso serves a cruel and drunken husband who beats her and terrorises her children, one of whom is another man's love child. Biso's husband murdered her lover in a hateful rage when he uncovered her affair and she realises that she must escape his house if she and her children are to live. Latha too seeks escape, but she finds it in the arms of Thara's boyfriend and this sets off a chain of events that will echo far into her future.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917958</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Debby Holt
|title=Recipe For Scandal
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=There's evidently a market for scandalous tales, or else many a women's weekly would have gone out of business by now, but this book, though full of scandal, is slightly different. This isn't council estate scandal or even trashy celebrity scandal, it's juicy, firmly middle class scandal of the type [[:Category:Zoe Heller|Zoë Heller]] might write about, and it's wickedly captivating.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847396542</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Jules Stanbridge
|title=A Date in Your Diary
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Harry knows that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, but she also knows there's a difference between what we need and what we want – and she wants a bloke. More specifically, she wants a date for the latest in a string of friend-and-family weddings, a wedding where, thanks to a 'tricky' seating plan, she will be sitting on the same table as her most recent ex...and his new girlfriend. With no prospects in sight, Harry comes to the conclusion that internet dating might be the way to go. At best, she'll find a guy who ticks all her boxes and will joyfully accompany her to the wedding before they live happily ever after, and at worst, well, she might get a story out of it, never a bad thing for a magazine journo.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347137</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sharon Owens
|title=The Seven Secrets of Happiness
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It was hard to think that life wasn't perfect for Ruby O'Neill. She and Jonathan had an idyllic marriage and a beautiful home. There was a job in a dress shop which she enjoyed and although she might not be close to her parents she had good friends. It was Christmas Eve and the tree had just been delivered by a lovely man on behalf of the garden centre when her world fell apart.
Jonathan had been killed in a car crash.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141028564</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Sarah Duncan
|title=A Single to Rome
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Natalie is in love with Michael. They've been together for three years, but Michael wants some space. He hasn’t said he doesn’t love her, so there is still a chance he could come back… Then he goes and finds himself a new girlfriend. Devastated, Natalie consoles herself with the help of her friends, who persuade her to go speed dating. There she meets Guy, a friendly man, who like her is trying to get over someone – his new ex-wife Vanessa. But Guy is one of the nice ones, and before she knows it, he has been invited to her friend’s wedding as Natalie’s date. At least she won’t be going alone and Michael will be there. But her love life isn’t her only worry. Past actions have come to light that have put her career in danger. At a loss, Natalie turns to Guy for help, who offers her the use of his flat in Rome. A place to escape? Or a place to dwell?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345932</amazonuk>
}}
